Goods barred from N. Korea reads like Christmas list in reverse

WASHINGTON—Take that, Mr. Kim! No iPods for you. No Segways, snowmobiles or flat-screen TVs, either. And definitely no booze or smokes.

Following up on a U.N. Security Council resolution that was passed after North Korea's nuclear weapons test in October, the Commerce Department on Friday issued a list of luxury goods that can't be exported to the fun-loving regime of North Korean "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il.

The prohibitions, a dollop of light reading in Friday's edition of the usually deadly dull U.S. Federal Register, read like a Christmas list in reverse: